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Flash Flood Warning 361, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 10, 2007Cooke County, Grayson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2007, 4:58 PM CDT for Cooke County, Grayson County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2007, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cooke County, TX, Grayson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1846 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 240 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1846 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 10, 3:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 4:30 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
430 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2007

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111100-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-
NAVARRO-FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-
LIMESTONE-LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
430 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE NORTH OF A
COMANCHE...TO HILLSBORO...TO ATHENS LINE THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE
BEST CHANCES FOR STORMS WILL BE IN THE IMMEDIATE RED RIVER
VICINITY...WHERE ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. DAMAGING
WINDS AND LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY...WITH
THE BEST CHANCES ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. AN ISOLATED SEVERE
STORM WITH HEAVY RAINFALL CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

A COLD FRONT AND STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL INCREASE THE
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY.

AREAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM GOLDTHWAITE...TO HILLSBORO...TO
SULPHUR SPRINGS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES DURING
THE AFTERNOON HOURS SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

IN ADDITION...AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES WILL APPROACH 100 TO 105
DEGREES EACH DAY OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20
THROUGH TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 10, 10:58 AM CDT, 6 hours before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin70 min
Jul 9, 10:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLamar32 min
Jul 9, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar65 min
Jul 9, 11:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta25 min
Jul 10, 5:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchFWDCollin, Cooke, Delta, Fannin, Grayson, Hopkins and 3 more9 hr
Jul 10, 5:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke35 min
Jul 10, 6:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson37 min
Jul 10, 6:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke26 min
Jul 10, 6:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson3 hr
Jul 10, 7:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin3 hr
Jul 10, 7:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin26 min
Jul 10, 8:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt27 min
Jul 10, 8:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt62 min
Jul 10, 8:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hunt, Lamar3 hr
Jul 10, 8:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin26 min
Jul 10, 8:44 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDelta, Lamar72 min
Jul 10, 8:44 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins12 hr
Jul 10, 8:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin3 hr
Jul 10, 8:56 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDCoryell49 hr
Jul 10, 8:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins3 hr
Jul 10, 8:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt31 min
Jul 10, 9:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt26 min
Jul 10, 9:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson3 hr
Jul 10, 9:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDRains31 min
Jul 10, 11:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHopkins, Rains26 min
Jul 10, 3:37 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHunt28 hr
Jul 10, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson73 min
Jul 10, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson72 min
Jul 10, 6:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLamar29 min
Jul 10, 6:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin3 hr
Jul 10, 6:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Lamar3 hr
Jul 10, 6:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.